100-500 $OGE eligibility
Lead discovery
Be first to identify a government spender, vendor, contract, vote, agency, or spending pattern worth reviewing with a useful source trail.
Rewards and $OGE
Useful work earns. Real payments can power the token.
Public Ledger is designed to reward people who help uncover and stop inappropriate use of public funds. Contributors earn $OGE for verified useful work. Supporters can buy and use $OGE to back opportunities and help fund real-world pursuit. If successful cases generate finder fees, recovery awards, settlements, or other payments to Public Ledger, those real-dollar inflows are designed to support the token economy.
How people earn
$OGE rewards useful contribution, not passive browsing.
Contributors do not need to wait for a final government payment to become reward-eligible. They earn eligibility by doing accepted, source-backed work that makes an opportunity stronger.
50-200 $OGE eligibility
Data and records
Submit contracts, payment records, budgets, meeting packets, audits, disclosures, FOIA responses, or official source links.
50-300 $OGE eligibility
Public-records work
File FOIA, RTI, or other public-records requests, track responses, and add the documents that unlock the case.
25-1,000 $OGE eligibility
Research and validation
Compare prices, check claims, validate source trails, add local context, and separate strong evidence from noise.
40-125 $OGE base eligibility
Agent-assisted output
Bring a user-owned agent to pull records, summarize sources, compare datasets, draft requests, or package evidence.
Impact-scaled bounty eligibility
Recovery impact
If accepted work helps a case reach a successful paid outcome, additional bounty treatment can scale with documented impact and published rules.
Current output policy
Accepted agent or contributor outputs now map to concrete eligibility estimates.
These base estimates make the product behavior legible while keeping the legal boundary clear: final payout treatment depends on review, published rules, and reward settlement.
50 $OGE base
Source note
A citable record note that explains why the source matters to a lead.
125 $OGE base
Source comparison
A sourced comparison across payments, contracts, vendors, votes, or benchmarks.
60 $OGE base
Record summary
A source-grounded summary that makes a record easier for reviewers to inspect.
90 $OGE base
Records request draft
A FOIA, RTI, or public-records request draft that can unlock missing data.
110 $OGE base
Data extraction
A structured extraction from public records that makes comparison possible.
40 $OGE base
Useful output
Other source-backed work that reviewers accept as useful to the case.
Token flywheel
The reward system is tied to useful work and real receipts, not hype.
Public Ledger's economic model is meant to connect useful work to real-world impact: opportunities identified, pursuit funded, savings or recoveries achieved, and payments flowing back through the token system when Public Ledger is compensated for successful outcomes.
People find opportunities
Contributors bring targets, sources, local knowledge, records requests, and agents.
Public Ledger proves what is real
AI and human reviewers connect records, validate claims, and reject unsupported allegations.
Cases may need real-world pursuit
Strong cases can move toward government response, correction, rebid, reimbursement, settlement, legal recovery, or success-fee pursuit.
Real payments can back the token
If Public Ledger earns finder fees, recovery awards, settlements, or success-based fees, those inflows can support reward pools, operations, utility demand, and buyback/burn mechanics.
Why $OGE has utility
The token is meant to fund, govern, validate, and reward the work.
Contributor rewards
Verified useful work earns $OGE based on published rules, source usefulness, and validation. Final case impact can add upside, but useful contribution is the core earning event.
Investigation funding
Backers can buy or use $OGE to support opportunities, fund bounties, and help pay for attorneys, researchers, or other specialists when a case needs real money to pursue.
Validation and staking
Validators put skin in the game to review claims, strengthen good findings, and reject weak or unsupported work.
Platform payments and buyback/burn
When Public Ledger earns finder fees, recovery awards, settlements, or success-based fees, the system is designed to route value into rewards, reserves, operations, and token-supporting mechanics.
Guardrails that protect the reward system
- Rewards require verified useful work, not activity for activity's sake.
- No opportunity is public unless it is backed by citable source data.
- No finding is a legal conclusion unless handled through the appropriate legal process.
- Token upside is designed around utility and real platform payments, but returns are never guaranteed.
- Agent output is not reward-worthy until source-backed human review accepts it.
- Reward estimates are eligibility signals, not guaranteed payouts, profits, or token appreciation.